[SOLVED] Need a Windows VM to start at boot time, how? Cockpit? VirtualBox?

[JayM]

The MX Wiki has a very good page on dealing with high resolution monitors in MX.
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/high- ... -displays/
The only problem is that changing your settings for hidpi is an all-or-nothing proposition and may render the fonts and things on the 13" laptop display too big, but perhaps you can find a happy medium.

[esbeeb]

I'm trying to make an RDP connection to Virtualbox's in-built RDP server, to access my Windows 10 Home VM (which otherwise works fine), and I can't connect.

Note that Windows 10 Home does not include an RDP server itself, but Virtualbox has a built-in RDP server feature, where you connect to your localhost (the host, not the guest) on port 3389 (with, say, grdesktop, or remmina). But this feature doesn't work for me.

I've tried both grdesktop (0.23), and remmina (1.2.31.2). Neither can connect.

I know that port 3389 is listening on my localhost, when I use the command:
sudo nmap -p 3389 localhost

tcpdump also shows a little traffic on port 3389 going back and forth when I try to connect. But there are no useful error messages anywhere to be seen. Not yielded by the VMs logs themselves, nor by Reminna, nor by grdesktop.

Here's what my RDP server settings look like, for the Windows 10 VM (and the "Enable Server" checkbox is indeed checked, it's just too small to see once scaled down to 600x600):


Note that the Authentication method is by default "Null", and I leave it that way. As in, I don't try supplying a username, password, or Domain.

Also Note: Virtualbox does have a forum at https://forums.virtualbox.org/
Oracle has got some sort of horrible login/sign-in service that doesn't work unless I use a VPN.

[esbeeb]

I've made a posting on the VirtualBox forum:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=94296

[esbeeb]

Here are all the packages I installed from the testing repo, BTW:
ii virtualbox 6.0.10-dfsg-1~mx17+1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
ii virtualbox-dkms 6.0.10-dfsg-1~mx17+1 all x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
ii virtualbox-ext-pack 6.0.10-1~mx17+1 all extra capabilities for VirtualBox, downloader.
ii virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 6.0.10-1~mx17+1 all guest additions iso image for VirtualBox
ii virtualbox-guest-dkms 6.0.10-dfsg-1~mx17+1 all x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms
ii virtualbox-guest-utils 6.0.10-dfsg-1~mx17+1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
ii virtualbox-guest-x11 6.0.10-dfsg-1~mx17+1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities
ii virtualbox-qt 6.0.10-dfsg-1~mx17+1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface

[esbeeb]

To get my RDP server within Virtualbox 6 working properly, I re-installed Virtualbox6, but not from the MX Linux Testing Repos.

Here's how I did that:
I removed all my virtualbox6-related packages from those Testing repos, listed in previous post.

I also removed the line with reference to virtualbox within MX Tools Repo Manager, last tab ("Individual Sources"), which was in various.list.

Then I made my own /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list, containing:
deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib

I had to import two keys seen here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
...which is to say:
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/ora ... x_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

then simply:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0

Then I manually added Oracle extensions from within VirtualBox itself, in File Menu -> Preferences -> Extensions -> Plus button, added the file:
Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.0.10.vbox-extpack
...downloaded from here:
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.10/

Those extensions contain the RDP server for Virtualbox (among other things). Then my Remmina RDP connection would actually work properly!